Is Your Critical Self Talk Ruining Your Life?

The devil part of Luna thinks she is stupid to allow herself to be scared by it. It sees the proper response as self-confidence and to give up playing the victim. It makes clear that it represents her own highly self-critical self-talk that makes her wrong and scared. It recommends that she just ignore her self-critical self-talk. If she does, it predicts that it will go away.

Dolphin for Pain Management

Why does pain personify itself as a free, joyous, pain-free dolphin for this dreamer? Why is its main message to listen to it and to become it? Why should this lady trust the voice of an imaginary, made-up dolphin? It’s a delusion and fantasy, right? She should just forget about it as quickly as possible, right?

Negotiating with Cancer Cells

Can cancer cells be reasoned with? We don’t know, but we do know that it is possible to reason with our mental representations of our cancer cells. How much do our mental representations of things create our health and sickness? Again, we do not know, but the following interview, the fifth in this series with Sarah, who is in the final segment of Stage IV stomach cancer, implies that we have a lot to learn from undertaking such a dialogue.

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